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The Front End Developer/Engineer Handbook 2024

An overview of the front end profession in 2024.

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Things That Can Break aspect-ratio in CSS

CSS has an aspect-ratio property, which has had full support since around 2021.

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DevTools Tips & Tricks

Front-end developers spend a significant amount of time working inside the browser’s DevTools.

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Gap is the new Margin

In 2020, Max Stoiber wrote the spicy "Margin considered harmful".

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Drawing a Line to Connect Elements with CSS Anchor Positioning

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Anchor Positioning last year, so I thought I would give it a try.

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What is safe alignment in CSS?

The safe keyword is used in addition to other alignment keywords in layout.

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Menus, toasts and more with the Popover API

Dropdowns, menus, tooltips, comboboxes, toasts — the popover attribute will make building a large variety of UI components easier.

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console.delight

Everyone knows you can use console.log() to log text and variables. Did you know you could also render (limited) CSS, SVGs, and even HTML?

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Basic Dialog Usage and Gotchas To Watch For

The element in HTML is tremendous. We’ve got support across the board now, so using it is a smart plan.

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Container Queries and Units

Container queries are similar to media queries but allow you set styles based on a particular element’s current size, typically the width.

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Quantity Queries are Very Easy with CSS :has()

What is a quantity query? It’s a bit of CSS that allows you to style an element (and its descendants) based on how many children the element has.

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Fine, I’ll Use a Super Basic CSS Processing Setup

If you need a mini build process just for your CSS, Lightning CSS is a pretty good modern choice.

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Front-end Developer Handbook 2019

A guide for front-end developers to equip themselves with latest learning resources and development tools in front-end engineering.

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Scalable Modular Architecture in CSS (SMACSS) Online/In-Person WorkshopSponsored

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Frontend Masters: New Responsive Web Design Course by Ben CallahanSponsored

In this new course from Frontend Masters, Ben tackles RWD process, prototyping and patterns, on down to specific coding tactics with media queries and responsive CSS. Watch a free lesson where Ben demonstrates making an existing website responsive by updating CSS properties on the fly.

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Estelle Weyl Explains CSS Specificity